As the authors describe it, “libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals“. I’ve always been fascinated by console-based applications and the ingenuity that some programmers have demonstrated when trying to provide a usable and attractive UI through ASCII characters. […]
A maze builder is a program that every newbie should try to code, right after learning about arrays, branches and loops. And if you want to visualize the maze, it is also a great project to practice how to draw and paint. As I was learning VB.NET, this is one of the first projects I […]
First, a little bit of history: Once upon a time, in February 2002, I was watching my favorite geek show on my hacked Ultimate TV: The Screen Savers, when, all of a sudden I hear the words “never been done”. I immediately hit the Replay button on my remote keyboard to hear what was being […]
I remember the time I used to know the 8088/8086, inside out! Heck! I new the 80286 inside out! The first program (if you wanna call it that) I wrote was in a Casio Pocket Computer; I then moved to a TRS-80 and then a Commodore 64; later the 128, and then an XT, and […]
Over a year ago I created a small and simple Network Monitoring tool to compensate for the missing network activity icon in modern versions of Windows. Maybe it’s just me but I LIKE to know when there’s some network activity going on, without having to open the Task Manager. I have updated it several times […]
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